Agenda, Finals Day

• Do this weekend: Add Dave Barry to your bibliography. It's from 50 Essays, 1st edition.

Today's Agenda

1. Logical Fallacies Slide Show
2. Be careful how you talk about grades: 1) You are not your grade. 2) You are literally off the scale. 3) Unfortunately, there are no effort points on this assignment. 4) The grade you earned that breaks your heart might be an incredible accomplishment for the person sitting right next to you. 5) You still have time to grow, even if you earned an A. 6) Feel free to come get feedback.
3. What do you do when you take good notes?
4. "Lost in the Kitchen": Take good notes
5. Small group disco
6. Whole class disco

Agenda, November 22

• Do Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Addams Family!

Today's Agenda

1. Logical Fallacies Slide Show 
2. Work time: 20 minutes
3. Rehearsal time: 10 minutes
4. Presentation time!

Logical Fallacies Slide Show Scoring Guide

Logical Fallacies Scoring Guide

	Accurate, attractive, clear, complete, inventive, and easy to read.			Creator
#1_______________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
#2 ______________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
#3 ______________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
#4 ______________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #1 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #2 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #3 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #4 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #5 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #6 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #7 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Example #8 ________________	5          4	4          3	2      1      0
Presentation: Quick, smooth, focused, interesting	10          9	9     8     7	6     4     2     0

Agenda, November 21

• Do Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Addams Family!
• Do tonight: Visit The Crucible online and look for logical fallacies in Acts III and IV.
• Period 1: Yikes! We got the publisher of The Crucible wrong! The correct publisher is Bantam Books, Inc.. Make your changes promptly.

Today's Agenda

1. The Crucible, Context 2
2. The Crucible, Context 3
3. Logical Fallacies Slide Show

Agenda, November 20

• Quiz retakes: Wednesday during lunch or after school
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Addams Family!
• Do tonight: Visit The Crucible online and look for logical fallacies in Acts III and IV.
• Period 1: Yikes! We got the publisher of The Crucible wrong! The correct publisher is Bantam Books, Inc.. Make your changes promptly.

Today's Agenda

1. Thematic Statements, just for kicks
2. The Crucible, Context 1
3. Prove it. Feel free to use logical fallacies.
4. The Crucible, Context 2
5. The Crucible, Context 3

Agenda, November 19

• Do Now: Stop stressing about the final. We will have work to do and points will be awarded, but you won't need to spend an enormous amount of time on Lang.
• Quiz retakes: Wednesday during lunch or after school
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Addams Family!
• Period 1: Yikes! We got the publisher of The Crucible wrong! The correct publisher is Bantam Books, Inc.. Make your changes promptly.
• If you missed yesterday, review yesterday's blog and write the reflection described in step one of the agenda. Multiple Choice Monday will be open until Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Today's Agenda

1. Finish The Crucible

Agenda, November 18

• Due Now : Revise one of the three essays you wrote this tri. Staple the new draft on top of the old. No highlighting necessary.
• Quiz retakes: Wednesday during lunch or after school
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Addams Family!

Today's Agenda

1. Mirror, mirror - a reflection: 1) How have you changed / grown as a writer this trimester? 2) How do you know you've changed? 3) What are your goals for next trimester? Why?
2. Multiple Choice Monday
3. Logical Fallacies
4. Act III, continued

Agenda, November 15

• Due Monday, 11/18: Revise one of the three essays you wrote this tri. Staple the new draft on top of the old. No highlighting necessary.
• Do this weekend: Tackle your to do list in the order of importance: make the most important changes first, in case you run out of time to make all the changes.
• If you missed class Wednesday, make arrangements to make up the quiz right away. It will be harder if you wait until tomorrow.
• Monday will be another Multiple Choice Monday!

Today's Agenda

1. Unity Week, Period 5
2. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
3. Act II, wrapped up
4. On to Act III

Agenda, November 14

• Due Monday, 11/18: Revise one of the three essays you wrote this tri. Staple the new draft on top of the old. No highlighting necessary.
• Do tonight: Start to tackle your to-do list. You choose: do you start with the most difficult, time-consuming task because you need to the most time to work on it? Do you start with the easiest task because you have a test in some other class tomorrow? Do you start with a task you need feedback on because tomorrow is your last chance to talk to me?
• If you missed class yesterday, make arrangements to make up the quiz right away. It will be harder if you wait until tomorrow.

Today's Agenda

1. Unity Week, Period 4
2. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
3. The Small Details
4. Act II, continued

A reminder of the prompts

Here's the narrative prompt.

Here's the synthesis prompt.

Here's the descriptive essay prompt.

Here are some notes on how to punctuate dialogue, if you're using it.

About your revision ...

How to choose which essay to revise:

1)    Which essay is most likely to earn me an A?

2)    Which essay I am most attached to?

3)    Which essay do I want to spend the most time with?

4)    Which essay is most in need of revision?

How will my essay be graded?

1)    Does it meet the demands of the assignment? (This includes word count)

2)    Is it well-crafted? Are the ideas interesting? Is the writing strong in terms of diction, syntax, and imagery?

3)    Does it display college-level paragraph development?

4)    Does it display college-level conventions?

Not all essays will earn A’s.

Agenda, November 13

• Due Monday, 11/18: Revise one of the three essays you wrote this tri. Staple the new draft on top of the old. No highlighting necessary.

Today's Agenda

1. Unity Week, Period 3:  http://ochspioneers.org/content/unity-week
2. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
3. Let's talk about stress
4. Pages 47-58
5. Logical Fallacies Quiz
6. Act II, continued

Agenda, November 12

• Due Now: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.
• Due Now: Completed Character Map, if you don't finish in class.
• Do tonight: Review them fallacies. You might want them memorized for tomorrow.
• Due Monday, 11/18: Revise one of the three essays you wrote this tri. Staple the new draft on top of the old. No highlighting necessary.

Today's Agenda

1. Unity Week, Per 1
2. How to know what to revise
3. Share yer maps
4. Act II

Agenda, November 8

• Due Today: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Due Now: New and improved descriptive essay, stapled in this order: Final draft on top, rough draft in the middle, peer review on the bottom.
• Do Monday: Review your logical fallacies and Crucible notes.
• Due Tuesday, 11/12: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.
• Due Tuesday: Completed Character Map, if you don't finish in class.

Today's Agenda

1. Finish Act I
2. The Basic Facts
3. Character Jigsaw
4. Character Map

Agenda, November 7

• Due Nov. 8: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Due Tomorrow: New and improved descriptive essay, stapled in this order: Final draft on top, rough draft in the middle, peer review on the bottom.
• Do Monday: Review your logical fallacies and Crucible notes.
• Due Tuesday, 11/12: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.

Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Titles
3. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Agenda, November 6

• Due Nov. 8: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Due Now: Descriptive Essay. Typed. MLA(ish). Put your word count under the date in your header on the first page.
• Due Friday: New and improved descriptive essay, stapled in this order: Final draft on top, rough draft in the middle, peer review on the bottom.
• Due Tuesday, 11/12: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.

Today's Agenda

1. College skill lesson #1: Lie to yourself about your deadlines.
2. Descriptive Essay Peer Review
3. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Agenda, November 5

• Due Nov. 8: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Due Today: Multiple Choice Monday: If you're absent today, the assignment will lock on Wednesday at 7:30 am.
• Due Wednesday: Descriptive Essay. Typed. MLA(ish). Put your word count under the date in your header on the first page.
• Due Tuesday, 11/12: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.

Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should? Do I have to?
2. A Few Things I Liked
3. The Metaphor Machine
4. Magnifying Glass OR Tourist Town
5. Logical Fallacies Review
6. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Agenda, November 4

• Due Nov. 8: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Due Today: Multiple Choice Monday: If you're absent today, the assignment will lock on Wednesday at 7:30 am.
• Do Tonight: Start organizing your descriptive details into a beginning, middle, and end.
• Due Wednesday: Descriptive Essay. Typed. MLA(ish).
• Due Tuesday, 11/12: Return your synth papers to your portfolios.

Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should? Do I have to?
2. A Few Things I Liked
3. Multiple Choice Monday
4. The return of (most of) the synth papers
5. Logical Fallacies Review
6. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Here's a link to The Crucible

Like the title says, here's a link to The Crucible.

LoLL T.o.C., 9/9-11/1

1. Lazarus v. Trump Official, pgs 1-2 
2. 9/11 Reflection, pg 3  
3. Claim, Reason, Evidence, pg A  
4. Synthesis Paragraph Notes Handout, pg B 
5. Synthesis Paragraph Notes, pg C  
6. Synthesis Paragraph Model, pg D  
7. "Shooting an Elephant" Notes, pg 4-5 
8. Defend, Qualify, or Challenge, pg 6 
9. Kline's Favorite Things, pg E 
10. Show, Don't Tell, pg 7 
11. Explode the Moment, pg 8 
12. "Laziness Does Not Exist" Notes, pg 9 
13. 5 Notes from the year so far, pg F 
14. Close Reading Practice, pg 12 
15. Synthesis Scoring Guide, pg G 
16. "Just Walk on By" Notes, pg 13 
17. Establishing Sources, pg H 
18. Argument o' the Week, pg 15
19. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" Notes, pg. 16
20. TED Tree Solemn Newts, pg. 20
21. Fear Brainstorm,  pg. 21
22. Visual Rhetoric, pg. 22
23. Google Search Tips, pg. I
24. Logical Fallacies,  pg. J-K
25. A Good Intro, pg. L
26. Bibliography Notes, pg. M-Q
27. "In Praise of the Humble Comma," pg. 23
28. Humble Brainstorm / Avowed v. Ascribed Identities / For Sale, pg. 25
29. "How it Feels" Newts, pg. 26
30. Name that Device, pgs. 28-9
31. Liz Prato, pg. 30
32. The Crucible, Act I, pg. 32

Descriptive Essay Prompt

Descriptive Essay

Due Wednesday, 6 Nov. 2019

Write a 750-1000 word descriptive essay modeled after one of the three essays we’ve recently discussed:

• “In Praise of the Humble Comma,” by Pico Iyer
• “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” by Zora Neale Hurston
• “Island for Sale,” by Liz Prato 

Your purpose is to use your powerful descriptive language to communicate a purpose greater than describing this object. If you choose to emulate Zora Neale Hurston, you may break your essay into sections (but you don’t need to). If you choose to emulate Liz Prato, you may make any structural or visual choices that capture the spirit of the essay as an advertisement (but you don’t need to). No matter which essay you choose to emulate, you should focus on descriptive writing.

This is a public document, which means it will be read by people who are not your teacher.

Typed. MLA (unless your advertisement works better in a different format).

Agenda, November 1

• Due Nov. 8: Pay for your AP exams in accounting.
• Coming next Monday: Multiple Choice Monday: Make sure it's easy for you to access your account.
• Do Tonight: Rest.
• Do Saturday: Draft powerful descriptions of your object / identity. Don't worry about purpose. Pay attention to figurative language and sensory details.
• Do Sunday: Review your LoLLs. Pay particular attention to Show, Don't Tell, Exploding the Moment, and your Logical Fallacies
• Due Now: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography with 14 entries (all and only the texts we've discussed as a whole class).
• Due Wednesday: Descriptive Essay. Typed. MLA.

Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should? Do I have to?
2. A Few Things I Liked
3. Two things we missed in Prato: Facts and Tone and The Hidden Synthesis
4. Logical Fallacies Review
5. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller